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I have been playing around with Microsoft's SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services and I must say I am pretty impressed.

Lately I haven't made much changes to the site; most features are ready and work as expected. I fixed a few bugs in the Voting Controls (and added enhanced design time support for them; a topic I might write an article about some day) but that's about it.

An often requested feature in Web applications is a drop-down that behaves like a Combo Box in Windows applications. If you start typing in a drop-down in a Windows application, it will preselect an item that starts with all the letters you type in. The drop-down in a Web browser preselects the item that starts with the last letter you typed in. Not very convenient. Fortunately, there are many replacements for the default drop-down available. One of them is the WebFX Combobox. In this snippet, I will demonstrate you how to fill this control with information from a database. I won't be discussing how the control works, and I also won't explain how you can use the advanced features of the control that allows you to add new data. This snippet will simply demonstrate how to generate the client-side code for the drop-down with information from a database.

I've noticed "Protected WithEvents" in the declarations for my controls on an ASPX web form. What's this all about? What does it mean?

It's easy to change style information of any object in your HTML page. With a bit of JavaScript you can change, for example, the border, or background-color of a paragraph.

This snippet shows you how to retrieve the directory of the "current" .NET Framework. The path returned is the location of the version of the .NET Framework that your application is using.

This snippet shows a Regular Expression for a strong password.

The following snippet shows you how to change the current printer with Visual Basic 6 code.

The following JavaScript code can be used to preselect an item in a drop-down list.

In HTML, it's pretty easy to preselect an item in a drop-down list. At design-time, or with a dynamic server page, at run-time at the server, all you need to do is add the selected attribute to the <option> element you want to select. If you want to select the item programmatically through JavaScript code, you'll have to follow a different route.